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Hi everyone, I'm new here - but I read through these forums a fair bit when doing my A+ recently (passed two days ago). I'm now self-studying for the MCDST.

One quick question. It's really unclear to me what are the latest and up to date books for MCDST. The top results on Amazon look a bit stale.

I liked the Sybex best for my A+. Can someone who knows tell me what the latest one is? And anyone else, what books did you find most valuable?

Lastly - the exam isnt going to get updated while I'm studying for it, is it? Just wondering as it looks old, and Vista has been about for a while...yet the MS site tells me both exams are in XP.

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...Lastly - the exam isnt going to get updated while I'm studying for it, is it? Just wondering as it looks old, and Vista has been about for a while...yet the MS site tells me both exams are in XP...

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The MCDST, like all MS exams, does get updated questions in relation to the subject matter. In the MCDST case it's going to be XP. For Vista there are 2 alternative tracks, the MCITP: CST & the MCITP: EST (these are the MCDST replacements), both of these use the MCTS: Vista cert/exam as their base.

In the MCDST case it's going to be XP. For Vista there are 2 alternative tracks, the MCITP: CST & the MCITP: EST (these are the MCDST replacements), both of these use the MCTS: Vista cert/exam as their base.

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Okay, so the MCITP is the newer version of MCDST - exactly the same but covering Vista rather ran XP?

In that case I had better look at doing MCITP instead of MCDST - except theres nowhere near the same breadth of training materials out there for MCITP...

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